Example Sentences

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The “Grosse Fuge” predictably offered the true test of Emersonian mettle.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

Emmet’s own father walked away from a wealthy family to work the land in Nebraska, inspired by the romantic ideal of Emersonian self-reliance.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Sunsets and the sea were archetypes of an Emersonian blend of reason and faith for such great 19th century American landscape painters as Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2020

The architecture, mixing private offices with the public garden, aimed to improve the daily lives of workers and to give New York a building that lent form to an Emersonian ideal.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2018

After pi-loting it west out of Atlanta, he’d arrived in Lake Mead National Recreation Area on July 6, riding a giddy Emersonian high.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer